Chin Diesel
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End of the game exposed Diaco's inability to assign specific game situations to staff and use them as needed.
One of the worst characteristics of bad leaders is an inability to recognize their own shortcomings and to expose themselves. It's a combination of hubris and lack of introspection. Also shows that they don't have a boss that holds them accountable.
By now Bob should know he gets caught up in the moment of the game and that he loses situational awareness of the clock and game management. Just this year it happened at the end of the first half with Maine and today's abomination.
No one on Diaco's staff has enough of Diaco's respect to convince Diaco that he needs help managing the clock. Someone should have already been assigned duties and been right on Bob's hip the entire last drive. According to Jacobs' piece in the Courant Diaco said several times to reporters that the last play was on 3rd down. Even when prompted that it was second, Diaco doubled and tripled down on wrong information. He admitted in the post game presser he didn't know what was going on.
This is a great opportunity for Benedict to put an imprint on the football program. He needs to lay down, in no uncertain terms, what types of changes he expects from the staff and how those changes will be assessed. Benedict should already be aware of the previous clock mismanagements from the previous two seasons. Diaco is the biggest unknown out of all the coaches at UConn's major sports. Basketball, baseball, hockey, soccer, etc all have coaches with proven track records of success. Diaco? Not so much.
Diaco has had to rebuild the program on many different levels and has done a very good job on most of them. But he is horrible at coaching a game and especially bad in quick changing, dynamic environments. He needs help.
One of the worst characteristics of bad leaders is an inability to recognize their own shortcomings and to expose themselves. It's a combination of hubris and lack of introspection. Also shows that they don't have a boss that holds them accountable.
By now Bob should know he gets caught up in the moment of the game and that he loses situational awareness of the clock and game management. Just this year it happened at the end of the first half with Maine and today's abomination.
No one on Diaco's staff has enough of Diaco's respect to convince Diaco that he needs help managing the clock. Someone should have already been assigned duties and been right on Bob's hip the entire last drive. According to Jacobs' piece in the Courant Diaco said several times to reporters that the last play was on 3rd down. Even when prompted that it was second, Diaco doubled and tripled down on wrong information. He admitted in the post game presser he didn't know what was going on.
This is a great opportunity for Benedict to put an imprint on the football program. He needs to lay down, in no uncertain terms, what types of changes he expects from the staff and how those changes will be assessed. Benedict should already be aware of the previous clock mismanagements from the previous two seasons. Diaco is the biggest unknown out of all the coaches at UConn's major sports. Basketball, baseball, hockey, soccer, etc all have coaches with proven track records of success. Diaco? Not so much.
Diaco has had to rebuild the program on many different levels and has done a very good job on most of them. But he is horrible at coaching a game and especially bad in quick changing, dynamic environments. He needs help.
